and congrats!The female was concentrating on her beautiful pups, their laughter and smiles touching her heart and making her feel calm. It didn't erase the grief she felt for Nathaniel - her lost son - but it did help ease it, at least some. There was still hope of finding him, but each day that her mate didn't return was another day that her son was farther away from her. So she watched her pups and the ocean and waited.
Unexpectedly, one of her pups turned around to face her and yelped happily, looking at something beyond her. She wanted to look, but was afraid to turn her back on her pups for even a second, so she gathered them close to her, hugging them, and then turned around. What her pups were looking at and had seen was a woman - she was gray, her fur ruffled and generally out of sorts, as was her short, dark gray hair. Her eyes were a brilliant green, matching an odd tattoo on her shoulder that sported a symbol Skye didn't know the meaning of. She had a long scar that ran down the middle of her left eye, giving her a war-like appearance, although she didn't seem hostile; just melancholy. Sad.
Before she could stop her, Erzulie, her white little pup, wriggled out of her hands and dashed over to the woman. She looked up at her, eyes wide and excited. "Hi!" the two month old puppy said, her white tail wagging and her faintly cream-splotched fur standing on end. Skye rushed over to her pup, picking her up and holding her against her with her brother, Robert, the other cream-colored pup that sported a brown mask and a deep red back. She stood and looked at the woman.
"Sorry if they bothered you," she said. She just noticed now that the woman had just been standing there, as if waiting - she seemed sad and lost, and Skye felt a bit of sympathy; she felt lost as well, lost without one of her pups and without her mate. "They're so difficult to control now that they're growing up!" Erzulie wriggled in protest, and Robert simply giggled.
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